List of Illustrations |
Notes on Contributors |
Acknowledgments |
Introduction / Shirley Samuels, University of Connecticut |
Historical and Cultural Contexts / Part I: |
National Narrative and the Problem of American Nationhood / Gerald Kennedy, Louisiana State University1: |
Fiction and Democracy / Paul Downes, University of Toronto2: |
Democratic Fictions / Sandra M. Gustafson, University of Notre Dame3: |
Engendering American Fictions / Martha J. Cutter, Kent State University ; Caroline F. Levander, Rice University4: |
Race and Ethnicity / Robert S. Levine, University of Maryland5: |
Class / Philip Gould, Brown University6: |
Sexualities / Valerie Rohy, University of Vermont7: |
Religion / Paul Gutjahr, Indiana University8: |
Education and Polemic / Stephanie Foote, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign9: |
Marriage and Contract / Naomi Morgenstern, University of Toronto10: |
Transatlantic Ventures / Wil Verhoeven, University of Groningen ; Stephen Shapiro, University of Warwick11: |
Other Languages, Other Americas / Kirsten Silva Gruesz, University of California ; Santa Cruz12: |
Forms of Fiction / Part II: |
Literary Histories / Ed White, Louisiana State University ; Michael Drexler, Bucknell University13: |
Reading and Breeding: Chesterfieldian Civility in the Early Republic / Christopher Lukasik, Boston University14: |
The American Gothic / Marianne Noble, American University15: |
Sensational Fiction / Shelley Streeby, University of California, San Diego16: |
Melodrama and American Fiction / Lori Merish, Georgetown University17: |
Delicate Boundaries: Passing and Other "Crossings" in Fictionalized Slave Narratives / Cherene Sherrard-Johnson, University of Wisconsin-Madison18: |
Doctors, Bodies, and Fiction / Stephanie Browner, Berea College19: |
Law and the American Novel / Laura Korobkin, Boston University20: |
Labor and Fiction / Cindy Weinstein, Caltech21: |
Words for Children / Carol Singley, Rutgers University22: |
Dime Novels / Colin Ramsey, Appalachian State University ; Kathryn Zabelle Derounian-Stodola, University of Arkansas23: |
Reform and Antebellum Fiction / Chris Castiglia, Loyola University24: |
Authors, Locations, Purposes / Part III: |
The Problem of the City / Heather Roberts, Clark University25: |
New Landscapes / Timothy Sweet, West Virginia University26: |
The Gothic Meets Sensation: Charles Brockden Brown, Edgar Allen Poe, George Lippard, and E.D.E.N. Southworth / Dana Luciano, Georgetown University27: |
Retold Legends: Washington Irving, James Kirke Paulding, John Pendleton Kennedy / Philip Barnard, University of Kansas28: |
Captivity and Freedom: Ann Eliza Bleecker, Harriet Prescott Spofford, and Washington Irving's "Rip Van Winkle" / Eric Gary Anderson, George Mason University29: |
New England Tales: Catharine Sedgwick, Catherine Brown, and the Dislocations of Indian Land / Bethany Schneider, Bryn Mawr College30: |
Harriet Beecher Stowe, Caroline Lee Hentz, Herman Melville, and American Racialist Exceptionalism / Katherine Adams, University of Tulsa31: |
Fictions of the South: Southern Portraits of Slavery / Nancy Buffington, University of Delaware32: |
The West / Edward Watts, Michigan State University33: |
The Old Southwest: Mike Fink, Augustus Baldwin Longstreet, Johnson Jones Hooper, and George Washington Harris / David Rachels, Virginia Military Institute34: |
James Fenimore Cooper and the Invention of the American Novel / Wayne Franklin, University of Connecticut35: |
The Sea: Herman Melville and Moby Dick / Stephanie A. Smith, University of Florida36: |
National Narrative and National History / Russ Castronovo, University of Wisconsin-Madison)37: |
Index |
Sediment Transport And Bedforms |
Turbulent Sand Suspension Over Dunes |
Dune Growth |
Decay And Migration Rates During A Large-Magnitude Flood At A Sand And Mixed Sand-Gravel Bed In The Dutch Rhine River System |
Bedforms In The Middle Reaches Of The Tay Estuary |
Scotland |
Flow Structure And Transport Of Sand-Grade Suspended Sediment Around An Evolving Braid Bar |
Jamuna River |
Bangladesh |
Modern Fluvial Environments |
Effective Discharge For Overbank Sedimentation On An Embanked Floodplain Along The River Rhine |
The Netherlands |
RADARSAT Imaging Of The 1997 Czech Republic Flood |
The Role Of Overbank Flow In Governing The Form Of An Anabranching River: The Fitzroy River |
Northwestern Australia |
Downstream Changes In Floodplain Character On The Northern Plains Of Arid Central Australia |
Confined Meandering River Eddy Accretions: Sedimentology |
Channel Geometry And Depositional Processes |
The Influence Of Flooding On The Erodability Of Cohesive Sediments Along The Sabie River |
South Africa |
Erosion Of Sediments Between Groynes In The Waal River Due To Navigation Traffic |
The Geochemical And Mineralogical Record Of The Impact Of Historical Mining Within Estuarine Sediments From The Upper Reaches Of The Fal Estuary |
Cornwall |
UK |
Avulsion: Modern And Ancient: |
Causes Of Avulsion |
An Overview |
Avulsion And Crevassing In The Sandy |
Braided Niobrara River |
Complex Response To Base-Level Rise And Aggradation |
Contrasting Styles Of Holocene Avulsion |
Texas Gulf Coastal Plain USA |
Pemiscot Bayou |
A Large Distributary Of The Mississippi River And Possible Failed Avulsion |
Avulsion |
River Metamorphosis |
And Reworking By Underfit Streams |
A Modern Example From The Brahamputra River In Bangladesh And A Possible Ancient Example In The Spanish Pyrenees |
Holocene Avulsion History Of The Lower Saskatchewan Fluvial System Cumberland Marshes |
Saskatchewan-Manitoba |
Recognizing Avulsion Deposits In The Ancient Stratigraphic Record |
Controls On River Systems And Alluvial Successions |
The Use Of Models In The Interpretation Of The Effects Of Base Level Change On |
Alluvial Architecture |
Subsidence Rates And Fluvial Architecture Of Rift-Related Permian And Triassic Alluvial Sediments Of The SE Iberian Ranges |
Eastern Spain |
Drainage Evolution In Active Mountain Belts |
Extrapolation Backwards From Present-Day Himalayan River Patterns |
Controls On The Sedimentology Of November 1996 Jokulhlaup Deposits Skeioarasandur |
Iceland |
Alluvial Facies And Architecture |
The Influence Of Aggradation Rate On Braided Alluvial Architecture |
Field Study And Physical Scale Modelling Of The Ashburton River Gravels |
Canterbury Plains |
New Zealand |
Sedimentary Facies From GPR Surveys Of The Modern |
Upper Burdekin River Of North Queensland |
Australia |
Consequences Of Extreme Discharge Fluctuations |
Meander Bend Reconstruction From An Upper Mississippian Fine-Grained Muddy Point Bar At Possum Hollow |
West Virginia |
Palaeohydrological Parameters Of A Proterozoic Braided Fluvial System Compared With A Phanerozoic Example |
Sand And Mud-Dominated Alluvial Fan Deposits Of The Miocene Seto Porcelain Clay Formation |
Japan |
Sedimentology Of The Gwembe Coal Formation (Permian) |
Lower Karoo Group |
Mid-Zambezi Valley |
Southern Zambia |
Sedimentology Of The Section Peak Formation (Jurassic) |
Northern Victoria Land |
Antartica |
Reconstruction Of Fluvial Bars From The Proterozoic Mancheral Quartzite |
Pranhita-Godavari Valley |
India |